At 06:50 PM 3/22/98 -0600, you wrote: Um, I believe there are folks on this list who weren't *born* when that movie came out. Which only goes to show that the spirit of curiosity and challenge that motivated the rest of us to stay up all night writing code (or playing Zork) is not dead. What's even better is that the younger members of this list have combined that spirit with a sense of history; they will not be reinventing the wheel, but will be building on it. If you don't know why screens were traditionally 80 columns wide, you don't know if it's okay to toss that idea aside should the technology allows it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/